Simple Man v0.3.1

Cut the chatter. Keep the work.

This release promotes the measured B2 policy and moves every install path onto it. If you installed via a pinned command before today, you were getting the v0.2 policy — reinstall to get this one.

The policy

The shipped policy is now the v0.3.1 candidate, promoted by an explicit owner decision recorded in DECISION.md. Against the previous v0.2 policy it wins blind pairwise preference 48–8 and restores fact retention to the no-policy level (66.7% vs 57.1%), while still removing a third of output length (−32.4%, 95% CI [−23.2%, −43.8%]).

The previous policy compressed harder (−66%) by dropping required facts. That is the defect this release removes — answers are moderately longer than v0.2 on purpose.

The skill description now carries a negative trigger, so tutorials, teaching explanations and detailed reports are written in full: activation precision 90% → 100%, protected-category false activations 2 → 0.

Evidence

Two preregistered live runs on claude-sonnet-5, 1,793 calls, all raw records committed under evals/releases/. Every published number is rebuilt from those records by make bench-v3-check; gates and inputs are preregistered by commit before the first call, and a test rehashes every pinned input.

Published rather than hidden: the first candidate failed its gates outright, and a mis-specified gate was scored as failed rather than quietly fixed.

Also in this release

• README repackaged around real captured before/after pairs, a benchmark chart and a diagram of the benchmark pipeline
• Install references pinned to v0.3.1: installer, Codex plugin marketplace ref, plugin manifest
• The v0.2.0 plugin manifest's always-on label is gone — installing the plugin makes the skill available; only the installer or a copied snippet enables the always-on policy

Install

npx skills add Maksim-Burtsev/simple-man -g -a claude-code -s simple-man -y

Codex and other agents: same command with -a codex. Always-on and per-agent setup: INSTALL.md.

Simple Man v0.2.0

What changed

• Added the standard Agent Skills install path and separated it from the always-on Codex policy.
• Pinned the installer and Codex plugin commands to this immutable release.
• Hardened installation with remote-source isolation, managed-marker validation, staged replacement, backup, and AGENTS.md symlink preservation.
• Added CI for tests, package consistency, installer regressions, manifest parsing, and Agent Skills discovery.
• Aligned Codex UI metadata and plugin versioning.